Demachi Masugata shōtengai

photo by 妖精書士 · CC BY-SA 3.0

It is the end of the ‘mackerel road’: the fish arrived here on foot from the sea.

Fishmongers, butchers, a tofu shop, and people from the neighbourhood buying their dinner. At the far end of the arcade is Demachi-za, which is a bookshop, a cinema and a restaurant all at once. The association states that the *saba-kaidō* ended here, the mackerel road along which salted fish arrived on foot from Wakasa, on the Sea of Japan.

A covered shopping arcade a short walk from the point where Kyoto's two rivers meet, in a residential neighbourhood. The shopkeepers' association states that the *saba-kaidō*, the ‘mackerel road’, ended here: the road along which salted fish from Wakasa reached Kyoto on foot. Among the shops, the association lists Demachi-za and Demachi Futaba.

ℹ️ There is no charge. ⚠️ Opening hours, number of shops, length of the arcade and the year the association was founded are not stated on the website. ⚠️ The domain demachi.jp without a subdomain is not the association but a hosting service: the right page is masugata.demachi.jp.

🚉 Demachiyanagi · 5 min walk

Sources: masugata.demachi.jp

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